Every now and again it’s sometimes necessary to change the folders, domains or hosting of your WordPress sites and in doing so, it can be quite a headache because the settings within WordPress try to help, but don’t quite go the whole way in terms of doing it all for you and making everything seamless.

On more than one occasion, I’ve had to revert to using my host’s integrated c-panel to access phpMyAdmin to manually change the information about the site myself. It sounds daunting, but a little searching with Google shows there are plenty of advice sites out there about how to do it.

The way, I did it, is as follows:

  1. Login to phpMyAdmin
  2. Select the database where your WordPress installation is stored
  3. Look for the ‘options’ table and click on the browse icon
  4. You need to change two entries now – one for ‘siteurl’ and one for ‘home’
  5. These should reflect your new domain location or URL
  6. Make the changes and that’s it – your site should now be back up and running

I’ve posted this info as much for myself (as I still find myself needing to do this), as I have for other people that are struggling.

Sources I referred to, were:

http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

http://www.ehow.com/how_2099315_change-wordpress-url.html